Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was published by the journal Almost Island in 2008 and 2013. He was a guest at the Almost Island Dialogues held in 2013, in New Delhi, where he delivered a talk and a reading from his work. Sharmistha Mohanty, founder-editor of Almost Island , interviewed Krasznahorkai in Budapest in 2012, and had several conversations with him in New Delhi afterwards.

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been called a master of the apocalypse, of dystopia and devastation. His work refracts not only the darkness of a brutal, desperate world, as seen in the small towns and rural areas of Hungary, but also the few attempts at transcendence that this world holds. His first work was Satantango , a moving and disturbing po

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